In the darkness at Brookwood station 450107 pauses with the 16.15 Alton to Waterloo 1A54 service. Behind the looming trees in the background is the huge and famous Brookwood cemetery that is the final resting place of many notable people. A railway was constructed right into both the Nonconformist and Anglican cemeteries by the London Necropolis Railway that brought funeral corteges directly from London Waterloo into two stations withing the cemetery, North (serving the Nonconformist section) and South (serving the Anglican).
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